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Jabul Ruins Dungeon – The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom Walkthrough

Echoes of Wisdom 100% Completion Walkthrough16 chapters
Walkthrough overview
  • Prologueplaying as Link, escaping the castle jail, and the waterways to Suthorn Beach.
  • Suthorn ForestSuthorn Beach and Village, meeting Tri, the first echoes, and mending the Suthorn Forest rift.
  • Suthorn Ruinsthe first dungeon, the Shadow Link fight, and the Seismic Talus boss.
  • Jabul Watersthe River and Sea Zora feud, Lord Jabu-Jabu, and Stilled Jabul Waters.
  • Jabul Ruinsthe whirlpool chase, the five colored switches, and the Vocavor boss.
  • Gerudo Desertthe Oasis, Gerudo Town, the desert rifts, and Cryptic Cavern.
  • Gerudo Sanctumthe tribute puzzle, the Bow of Might, and the Mogryph boss.
  • Hyrule Castlethe Hyrule Castle well rift, Stilled Castle Town, and the Ganon boss.
  • Eldin VolcanoKakariko Village, the Eldin Volcano Trail, and saving Goron City.
  • Eldin Templethe Bombs of Might, the lava hall, and the Volvagia boss.
  • Faron WetlandsScrubton, Blossu’s House, and escaping the Deku Scrub Lockup.
  • Faron Templethe small keys, the plant mini-boss, and the Gohma boss.
  • Hebra Mountainmeeting Condé, the climb through the snow, and the Stilled Hebra Mountain rift.
  • Lanayru Templefire orbs, fans and lasers, the slime mini-boss, and the Skorchill boss.
  • Eternal Forestthe six Ancient Orb pedestals, the Deku Tree, and freeing Link in the Stilled Ancient Ruins.
  • Null’s Bodythe final dungeon and the multi-phase fight against Null.

This page covers Jabul Ruins from its entrance to the boss, Vocavor. It picks up where Jabul Waters leaves off; that page also has the region’s collectibles checklist.

Jabul Ruins: Falling In and the Whirlpool Chase

Inside the entrance hall, check the Waypoint statue on the right, then walk north up the corridor. When you step onto the cracked floor it gives way, and you drop into deep water below, which is where the dungeon really starts.

Zelda enters Jabul Ruins' first hall, with the Waypoint statue's Check prompt beside the cross-shaped floor tiles.
Zelda walks north up the entrance corridor onto the cracked floor that is about to give way.
The cracked floor collapses and Zelda drops through the hole into the ruins below.
Zelda lands in the deep water of the side-scrolling passage where Jabul Ruins really begins.

You land in a side-scrolling underwater passage; dive and swim right. A rock blocks the way, so Bind it and drag it aside. Further on, Bind the next rock at the bottom and lift it up onto the ledge above to clear the path. Keep swimming right along the bottom until a purple, crested creature appears behind you and unleashes an underwater whirlpool that chases you down the corridor. Remember this thing; it’s the dungeon boss.

Zelda swims right and uses Bind on the first boulder blocking the underwater passage to drag it aside.
Zelda Binds the second boulder at the bottom of the pit and hauls it upward out of the way.
The second boulder now rests up on the ledge above, clearing the low route on through the water.
The purple crested creature, the same one later fought as the boss, appears behind Zelda in the passage.
The creature's underwater whirlpool fills the left of the screen and starts chasing Zelda to the right.

The chase is short but frantic, always fleeing right. Slip through the low gap under the first ledges, then take the high route over the stonework that follows. Keep swimming past the enemies without letting the sparking jellyfish shock you. Finally a rock blocks the escape: Bind it aside mid-flight, then swim up and right to the ladder and climb out.

Zelda flees right through the lower gap under the stone ledges with the whirlpool close behind.
Zelda takes the high route over the U-shaped stonework while the whirlpool chase continues.
Electrified jellyfish crackle around Zelda as she keeps swimming right during the chase.
A boulder blocks the way out, so Zelda Binds it and pulls it aside mid-chase.
Zelda reaches the ladder at the upper right and climbs out just ahead of the whirlpool.

You climb out into a flooded hall with jars on the ledge to your right and Octoroks across the water. Smash the jars and clear the enemies for materials such as Bubble Kelp, then follow the water left to a small door and stairs in the upper-left corner.

Zelda climbs out into Jabul Ruins' flooded hall beside the jars on the right-hand ledge.
Zelda lifts a jar to toss it, with the Place and Toss prompts shown, in the flooded hall.
Zelda defeats an Octorok in the flooded hall and the counter shows Bubble Kelp collected.
Zelda heads left across the water toward the small door and stairs in the hall's upper-left corner.

The Five Switches

Activate the Waypoint in the next room and take the north door. Four fish statues ring a purple switch; step on it. The matching purple lock lights up on the big door to the north and water pours from it into the basin below, where a spout starts bubbling. The door has five colored locks in all (green, light blue, blue, purple and red), so this chamber is the dungeon’s hub: you’ll be hunting down the switches for the other four.

Zelda goes to the Waypoint statue in the next room to record it before heading on.
Zelda enters the central chamber where four fish statues ring the purple floor switch.
Zelda stands on the purple switch at the centre of the fish statues in the central chamber.
The purple lock lights on the five-colour door and water pours from it into the basin below.
The basin before the coloured-lock door is now flooded, with a water spout bubbling in it.

From the hub, go right and climb down the ladder hole into a side-scrolling water room. Fight right through the enemies, including fish in the water and a Bio Deku Baba at the waterline, to a small ledge chest holding the Dungeon Map. (The ladder hole on the hub’s left side leads to a dark, coral-lit passage with a chest holding 100 rupees that loops back round to the hub; it’s worth clearing while you’re in the hub.)

Back in the central chamber, Zelda heads right toward the ladder hole on the room's right side.
Zelda climbs down the ladder into a side-scrolling water room in Jabul Ruins.
A Bio Deku Baba blocks the waterline route as Zelda fights her way right through the room.
Zelda holds up the Dungeon Map from the ledge chest, with its "You got a dungeon map!" text box.

Red Switch

From the map chest, drop off the ledge into the water and dive. Swim right along the bottom of the flooded passage, cutting down the fish that dart at you, then rise to the surface where a ladder hangs on the right-hand wall and climb it.

Zelda dives off the map-chest ledge and swims the flooded side-scroll passage in Jabul Ruins.
Zelda swims right along the passage floor in Jabul Ruins as a fish darts in to attack.
Zelda surfaces in Jabul Ruins with the ladder on the right-hand wall just ahead.
Zelda climbs the ladder out of the dark side-scroll room toward the flooded cage room.

The ladder brings you up onto a ledge in a big flooded room crossed by iron bars. Dive in and swim right, past the end of the bars. Chompfins patrol this stretch and Octoroks spit rocks from the tall columns; climb onto the column ringed with floating wooden crates to get your bearings, then summon a Chompfin echo of your own and send it after the Octoroks.

Zelda dives off the ledge near the caged switch room into the flooded passage.
Zelda swims past barred openings patrolled by Chompfins in the flooded passage.
Zelda summons a Chompfin echo to take on an Octorok in the water.
Zelda's Chompfin echo bites into an Octorok, clearing the swim to the red switch.

When it’s clear, swim to the northern bars, where a wooden crate is wedged in a gap underwater. Blast it apart with a Bombfish echo and swim through the gap into the channel behind the bars. Follow it left, Water-Block up onto the ledge in the corner, and smash the jars for Refreshing Grapes; the chest they surround holds 50 rupees.

A Bombfish echo explodes against the crate wedged in the underwater gap in the northern bars.
With the crate gone, Zelda swims through the gap into the channel behind the bars.
Zelda reaches the jar-ringed ledge and its chest in the corner of the flooded cage room.
Zelda holds up a purple rupee: "You got 50 rupees!" from the jar-ledge chest in Jabul Ruins.

Back in the main pool, the way out is a doorway on the west ledge, reached by a rope strung from the top of a wooden pulley post. Swim to the post whose rope runs left toward that ledge, place a Water Block in the water right beside it, climb onto the block, and step up onto the post’s flat top.

Zelda places a Water Block in the pool beside the wooden pulley post in the cage room.
Zelda stands on the Water Block next to the pulley post, level with its flat top.
Zelda stands on top of the pulley post where the rope runs left toward the west ledge.

From the post, walk the rope left to the ledge and take the doorway up the stairs. The next room bars its doors as soon as you enter and sets a pack of red-clawed crab enemies on you, with more lurking in its flooded lower half; clear them all (Swordfighter Form makes short work of them) and the doors open. Take the upper-left one.

Zelda walks the taut rope left from the pulley post to the west ledge of the cage room.
Zelda reaches the ledge and the doorway with stairs leading out of the flooded cage room.
The doors bar behind Zelda as red-clawed crab enemies scuttle toward her in the Zora-mural room.
Zelda fights the crab enemies in Swordfighter Form in the Zora-mural room of Jabul Ruins.
With the crabs cleared, the barred doors of the Zora-mural room swing open again.

Two fish statues flank the red switch on its dais. Step on it: the red square on the hub’s big door lights up and water gushes up through the gate beneath it. Then drop through the floor hole that has opened on the left, land on a floating platform, and climb the ladder back to the hub.

The red switch sits on a dais between two fish statues in Jabul Ruins.
Zelda steps onto the red switch on the dais between the fish statues.
Cutscene: water gushes up through the gate under the colored-lock door in the central hall.
The glass floor panel left of the dais has opened into a hole Zelda can drop through.
Zelda lands on a floating platform in the side-scroll water room below the switch room.
Zelda climbs the side-scroll room's ladder back up to the central hub.

Blue Switch

From the hub’s left side, climb down the ladder through the floor hatch and drop into the water. The passage is dark, and only the glowing blue coral lights the area around it. Follow the coral down through the passage to a Bio Deku Baba rooted on a ledge. Summon a Chompfin to bite it until it goes down, and learn its echo.

Zelda walks to the floor hatch on the hub's left side in Jabul Ruins, the way down into the dark water passage.
Zelda swims past glowing blue coral in the dark underwater passage beneath the Jabul Ruins hub.
A summoned Chompfin echo lunges at a red-eyed Bio Deku Baba beside the glowing coral in the dark water.
Zelda holds up the Bio Deku Baba echo with the text "You learned the Bio Deku Baba echo!"

Keep swimming past Chompfins and jellyfish. The water opens into a brighter cavern with another Bio Deku Baba, then turns dark again. A small chest on a ledge beside the glowing coral holds 100 rupees. Then swim up to the upper-left and climb the ladder out of the water.

The passage opens into a brighter cavern where another Bio Deku Baba sways on a ledge near Zelda.
Back in the dark, Zelda reaches a small chest tucked on a ledge beside glowing coral.
Zelda holds up a silver rupee with the text "You got 100 rupees! You're overjoyed!"
Zelda surfaces at the upper left of the passage and grabs the ladder leading up out of the water.

The room above is the sunken-torch puzzle. A lit torch sits in the bottom-left, with unlit torches in the bottom-right and upper-right. The fourth torch is missing because it’s at the bottom of the pool. Dive into the pool, Bind the submerged torch and drag it out onto the floor to the empty upper-left corner, then light all four with Ignizol.

The torch room's pool in Jabul Ruins, with a sunken torch visible under the water.
Zelda Binds the sunken torch underwater in the torch room's pool.
Zelda drags the torch out of the pool to carry it to its stand.
An Ignizol echo lights the upper-left torch in the torch room.
All four torches lit in the torch room, unlocking the way onward.

The right door opens onto the blue switch, at the top of the steps between two fish statues. Press it to light the blue lock on the central chamber’s big door, which pours water into the pool in front of it. Drop through the new floor hole to the right of the steps and climb the ladder back up to the hub.

The next room: a light-blue floor switch sits on top of the steps between two fish statues.
Zelda steps onto the blue switch at the top of the stairs.
Cutscene: the blue lock on the central chamber door lights and pours water into the pool below.
Back in the switch room, a new floor hole has opened to the right of the steps.
After dropping through the hole, Zelda climbs the ladder on the right back up to the hub.

Yellow Switch

Stand on the purple switch and walk toward the filling-and-draining pool. When it drains, step onto the floor circle so the water jet launches you, and hop off at the peak to the left.

Zelda stands on the purple floor switch between the fish statues, with the draining pool just ahead.
With the pool drained, Zelda waits on the floor circle where the water jet will erupt.
The water jet rises under Zelda and lifts her up to the Jabul Ruins hub's upper level.
Zelda hops off the top of the water jet onto the upper ledge to the left.

The next room has a southward current full of floating wooden platforms. Ride one south, dodging the right-side enemies by dipping into the water if needed, but do not ride over the waterfall at the end. Hop onto the solid ledge in the middle, cross it, and jump back into the water; going north against the current is a losing fight, so instead hop platform to platform as they drift down toward you.

Zelda rides a floating wooden platform south on the current in the log-strewn water room.
A red enemy waits on a wooden platform on the right side as Zelda swims down the current.
The current runs to a waterfall at the room's south end; stop before it at the middle ledge.
Zelda hops across drifting platforms toward the doorway on the room's top-left ledge.

Work up to the doorway on the top-left and go through into the five-device puzzle. Five eye-shaped devices around this flooded room all need flipping from blue to orange, and Swordfighter Form’s sword does the flipping. The first is on the column ahead; lay a bridge of Water Blocks from the right-hand ledge out to it, then switch to Swordfighter Form and strike it. The second sits on a platform among floating Wooden Boxes; climb onto it and hit it. The third perches on a tall ledge at the far left; stack Water Blocks into a column beside it, swim up, and strike it. The fourth is underwater, ringed by Sea Urchins; dive and hit it (a Chompfin echo will help clear out the urchins). The fifth hides behind bars and Wooden Boxes in the top-left; stand on the ledge by the locked door, bridge over with Water Blocks, lift the boxes out of the way (they leave Refreshing Grapes), and hit it.

A Water Block bridge from the right ledge reaches the first blue eye device on its column.
In Swordfighter Form, Zelda strikes the second eye device on its platform among Wooden Boxes.
A stacked Water Block column on the left lets Zelda reach the third device on the tall ledge.
The fourth eye device sits underwater, ringed by spiky Sea Urchins.
From the ledge by the locked door, a Water Block bridge leads to the barred alcove.
With the Wooden Boxes moved, Zelda flips the fifth device behind the bars to orange.

With all five orange, the door opens into a room of hopping one-eyed monsters around a lily-pad pool; keep moving and let a sword-wielding echo (plus your own Swordfighter Form) do the work. Clear them, stack Water Blocks to climb onto the raised floor on the right, take the right door, and step on the yellow switch among the fish statues. The pots by the left wall hold Refreshing Grapes. Drop through the floor hole on the right to head back to the hub.

The next room holds hopping one-eyed enemies around a pool with a lily pad.
A sword-wielding echo fights the one-eyed enemies while Zelda keeps her distance.
Stacked Water Blocks let Zelda climb onto the raised floor leading to the right door.
Zelda climbs the steps to the yellow switch between the fish statues.
The yellow lock on the hub's colored door lights up and a new stream of water flows.
Zelda heads for the floor hole to the right of the yellow switch to drop back toward the hub.

Big Key and Light Blue Switch

On the hub’s upper level, walk right to the wooden platforms flanking the switch-color wall. With the yellow lock lit, a water jet now spurts up between them: step onto the left platform, wait for the jet to rise, hop onto it, then jump across to the right platform. Keep going right into the next room and take the ladder down through the hatch in its floor.

Zelda walks right along the hub's upper level toward the wooden platforms flanking the switch-color wall in Jabul Ruins.
Zelda hops from the left wooden platform onto the water jet rising in front of the switch-color wall.
Zelda reaches the ladder hatch in the floor of the room right of the switch-color wall in Jabul Ruins.
Zelda climbs down the ladder into the side-view underwater passage below the Jabul Ruins hub.

The ladder drops you into a side-view underwater passage. Swim right and send a Bombfish into the round shell blocking the ledge, then swim up into the alcove above for a chest with a Golden Egg. Further on, a stack of boulders plugs a gap in the ledge; Bind it and drag it aside to get through. Next, a wooden crate wedges an opening overhead; a Bombfish blows it apart. Past it, Bind the plank lying across a gap and pull it free, blast the next shell with another Bombfish, and follow the passage down to the spot-lit chamber whose chest holds the Big Key. Electric orbs drift through the whole passage, so keep clear of them.

A Bombfish echo swims toward the round shell blocking the ledge in the Jabul Ruins underwater passage.
Zelda holds up a Golden Egg with the "You got a golden egg!" text box in the underwater alcove.
Zelda uses Bind on the stacked boulders plugging a gap in the ledge so she can get past them underwater.
A Bombfish heads for the wooden crate plugging an overhead opening in the Jabul Ruins underwater passage.
Zelda Binds the plank lying across a gap and pulls it free to open the way down the passage.
Zelda holds up the Big Key under spotlights with its "You got the big key!" text box in Jabul Ruins.

Swim back the way you came. Bombfish make short work of the wooden crates along the route (they drop Bubble Kelp, Refreshing Grapes and an Electro Apple), and the boulder stacks need Binding aside again where they plug the gaps. Instead of climbing the ladder, swim out through the opening on the upper left into a flooded room full of electric orbs and other sea creatures, including a wild Chompfin. Clear them out (Swordfighter Form works well here), blast the wooden crate with a Bombfish, and swim out on the left side.

A Bombfish blasts wooden crates on the way back, dropping Refreshing Grapes in the underwater passage.
Zelda Binds the stacked boulders aside again to swim back up through the gap in the ledge.
The flooded Jabul Ruins room with a wooden crate and swarming sea creatures, seen as Zelda swims in.
Zelda fights the flooded room's sea creatures in Swordfighter Form near the wooden crate.
Zelda sends a Bombfish at the wooden crate in the flooded room before swimming out the left side.

The next flooded hall holds the light blue switch, flanked by two Bio Deku Baba on pedestals. Take them out with a Bombfish and sword slashes; the jars along the left wall hold Refreshing Grapes. The switch needs constant weight, so drop a Boulder echo on it. The light blue lock on the switch-color wall lights up and the water jet surges up past the top of the wall. Swim out the upper left back into the side-view passage, blow up the shell there with a Bombfish, and Bind the stacked boulders aside to reach the ladder.

The flooded hall's light blue switch flanked by two Bio Deku Baba on pedestals in Jabul Ruins.
Zelda slashes a Bio Deku Baba on the pedestal beside the light blue switch.
Zelda drops a Boulder echo onto the light blue switch to hold it down.
With the light blue lock lit, the water jet surges up past the top of the switch-color wall.
Zelda Binds the stacked boulders aside to reach the ladder out of the passage.

Climb the ladder back to the hatch room and walk left to the switch-color wall. The jet now gushes constantly and towers over the wall: step onto the right wooden platform, jump into the jet, and ride it up to the ledge where the big locked door sits between two rows of fish statues. Two jars stand by the left wall if you want to smash them. Spend the Big Key on the door and go in.

Zelda climbs the ladder out of the underwater passage back up to the hatch room in Jabul Ruins.
Zelda stands on the right wooden platform beside the towering water jet at the switch-color wall.
Zelda arrives at the top of the water jet on the ledge with fish statues and the big locked door.
Zelda lifts one of the jars by the left wall of the boss-door ledge in Jabul Ruins.
Zelda stands at the big locked door between the fish statues, ready to open it with the Big Key.
The big door in Jabul Ruins stands open after Zelda uses the Big Key, leading on to the boss.

Boss: Vocavor

A giant pink, shrimp-like fish crowned with a cluster of teal bubbles, fought in a flooded side-view arena of stone pillars and grassy ledges. It swims laps, fires purple spines, and spins up whirlpool columns, so keep moving. In the first phase, summon a Bombfish and send it at Vocavor; the blast pops the bubble crest off its back, and you can then hit the exposed shell in Swordfighter Form. In the second phase, glass-walled air pockets appear in the arena. Drop a Water Block inside one; Vocavor swims into it, and when the block vanishes it is left flopping on the dry floor, so jump in and slash it in Swordfighter Form. Repeat until it goes down. It leaves a Heart Container and a Might Crystal.

Vocavor, the bubble-crested Jabul Ruins boss, appears with its name card at the start of the underwater fight.
Zelda sends a Bombfish echo toward Vocavor's teal bubble crest while it hovers over a grassy ledge.
With Vocavor's bubble crest blown off, Zelda in Swordfighter Form dives at its exposed shell.
Phase two: a Water Block placed in the dry air pocket draws Vocavor in so it gets stranded on the floor.
Vocavor lies stranded on the dry floor of the air pocket while Zelda slashes it in Swordfighter Form.
Zelda holds up the Heart Container won from Vocavor, with its "You got a Heart Container!" text box.

With Lord Jabu-Jabu back at Crossflows Plaza, The Jabul Waters Rift is complete. Next, head west across Hyrule Field to Gerudo Desert. Once both regions are mended, the next main quest, Still Missing, sends you back to Lueburry’s home in Suthorn Forest and on to Hyrule Castle. (If you do the desert first, General Wright turns up here asking for Minister Lefte and Still Missing begins straight away.)

General Wright at Crossflows Plaza asks whether Minister Lefte is at Lueburry's home.
The Still Missing main quest begins on the Zora Cove beach once The Jabul Waters Rift is complete.

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